Myer Briggs Personality Types

Do you know your personality type? I find the whole science absolutely fascinating. You can learn so much about yourself and others, why people behave in certain ways, and how you can improve yourself and your relationships.

Before I started my current job, I read a book called Do What You Are. It's about choosing a career or job role that suits your personality, and it takes you through the different personality types and how to find your own.

I am an ESTJ, and the profile for this type describes me surprisingly well:

• My primary mode of living is focused externally, where I deal with things rationally and logically;
• I value competence and efficiency, and like to see quick results for my efforts;
• I naturally step into leadership roles. I am self-confident;
• I enjoy interacting with people, and like to have fun. I can be boisterous and fun at social events, especially activities which are focused on the family, community, or work;
• I am generally enthusiastic, upbeat and friendly;
• I can see what steps need to be taken to complete a specific task and am results driven;
• I honour commitments, meet deadlines and am responsible and dependable;
• What you see is what you get. I value honesty;
• I think out loud and sometimes this means sharing half baked ideas;
• I am happiest after a decision is made, I don't like keeping my options open until the last minute;
• I value structure, hierarchy and certainty;
• I am not personally threatened by conflict or criticism. I am interested in resolving conflict rather than ignoring it. 

My weaknesses are also related to my personality type:

• I can be demanding and critical, because I have such strongly held beliefs, and may express myself without reserve if I feel someone isn't meeting my standards;
• I need to watch out for being too rigid, and work on being more open minded;
• I sometimes have to remind myself to value other people's input and opinions and fulfill others needs for emotional sensitivity. I am not naturally in tune with what others are feeling;
• I have a tendancy to always need to be in charge;
• I am impatient with inefficiency and sloppiness;
• I am generally uncomfortable with change.

More information, and the source of this image here

Do you know your personality type? If so, do you think the profile suits you well?

An Exhausting Week

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All has been quiet on the blogging front because I have just come out of an absolutely exhausting, crazy week. I have been working very long hours on a transaction which will (hopefully) mostly be finalised on Monday.

I am finding the work I am given challenging and I have been given lots of responsibility (which I love), but I am finding my managing partner very hard work. He yells at me, is unpredictable and moody and doesn't seem to be satisfied no matter how hard one tries. I know it's nothing personal as he treats everyone like this, but it is upsetting none the less. I suppose I just have to get used to his behaviour and not let it get to me at all - I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet.

This weekend I have cancelled most of my social events as I'm just too drained to do anything. Anyway, here are some random phone snaps to give you a snapshot of the past week or two...

My managing partner's Mum bakes for us. Every Monday. Sometimes it's cookies, other times cake or a slice. It's one of the (very) few perks in my office!

 I am really liking this cute advertisment which is inside lots of Perth's buses:

"Humpty Dumpty ran for the bus

Humpty Dumpty caused a great fuss.

All of the passangers were forced to wait

And now thanks to Humpty they're all running late."

Ted is still alive but he is now missing both eyes. 

On the coffee machine at the Food Store in West Perth:  "Unattended children will be given espresso and a free kitten". I love the barista there - he sings while making coffees. I think it makes them taste better ;-)

 Last weekend I used a voucher which entitled me to a 1 hour full body massage (it was blissful) and a 30 minute ion detox foot spa. I sat there googling the "science" of these spas on my phone while I was having it and concluded that they're a money making ploy/scam. The only good thing about them is soaking your feet in warm water and being forced to sit and relax for half an hour (because if you try to take your feet out, the red rusty water stains everything).

The water is supposedly turned this colour by toxins being released from your body. This is a phurphy - "It's just basic chemistry - electrolysis. The water goes brown because metal electrodes are rusting in a salt water bath." So even if you don't put your feet in the water, it would still turn brown. Goldacre even demonstrated the process with some salt water, a car battery and a Barbie doll. Even Barbie turned the water brown." Source

 Breakfast at Cranked Coffee, Leederville (review to follow when I find a spare moment to write it). Their homemade tomato relish was delicious.

Aren't these stress balls adorable? I found them at a shop on Oxford Street in Leederville and had to have one. They were $55 each (!) at the store, but sure enough online you can get them for about $8 each delivered, so I bought a set of 4. 

Caomaru are designed by Makiko Yoshida and are available in 4 expressions: Yuck, Relief, Pout and Joy. This week I would have chosen to play with 'Yuck', for sure!

Brunch Review: Mrs S, Maylands

I have heard so many people talk about Mrs S in Maylands, I was excited to try it out and had high expectations. I arrived at 10:25am and put my name down for a table for 2. There were several people on the list before us, but the waitress seemed positive about our chances of getting in quickly.

Unfortunately, we waited outside in the wind for 50 minutes and by the time we finally got in, we were only just in time to order breakfast before the 11:30am cut off. By this time we were quite hungry and annoyed.

Our meals:

The Scoring

Menu variety / creativity: 7.5/10. Not a lengthy menu, but they do have some creative options (notably the rice pudding, apple and rhubarb crumble with yoghurt and cornbread with eggs, bacon and maple syrup). I was a little disappointed in the sweet options (nothing appealed to me that much), but I think the menu might change regularily.

Taste:  6/10. I chose the banana bread with pistachio cream, and my friend had the apple and rhubarb crumble. We were both unimpressed. The banana bread was very sweet and too heavy (it really needed some fresh strawberries or something on the side to balance it out), and my friend thought that the crumble was sickly sweet too. Perhaps we chose badly, but at an impressive café there aren’t any bad menu choices.

Coffee: 7.5/10. Pretty good.

Setting / location: 8.5/10. Lovely indoor décor with a cute vintage vibe. Fresh flowers, a large communal table, mismatched chairs and kitsch home wares for sale all add to the character. I love how the menus are inside vintage Little Golden books.

Service: 7.5/10. Once we got inside, the service was fast. You order at the counter and they bring the meals out to you.

They need to be more informed about the expected waiting time (We didn’t ask specifically what the expected wait was, but someone who arrived just after us did and was told ‘It could be 20 minutes, or it could be 5 minutes’. It wasn’t close to either!) and maybe work out a better waiting area (we were all crowding the sidewalk outside, making it hard for pedestrians to get past).

Price: 8/10. Reasonably priced, with my banana bread coming in at $10 and a regular coffee only $3.50 (cheap for Perth).

Verdict: Given the hype, I was so disappointed. If we had not had to wait so long and were able to order and eat at a more leisurely pace, perhaps our experience would have been markedly different. After the wait, we really wanted to be blown away by the food and coffee but experienced the opposite. I definitely wouldn’t bother with this place again unless we could get a table immediately.

Road trips from hell

We were on a 4WD tour of Fraser Island. I was about 12 years old, but I remember the traumatic experience like it was yesterday. I had been feeling travel sick for a while, but I had been told in the past by my parents that it was "all in my head" and that "no one else in the family suffers from travel sickness, it is obviously psychological". Of course this meant I kept quiet and tried to ignore the feeling.

You can guess what happened. By the time I realised that I was actually going to vomit, there was no time to tell anyone let alone source a plastic bag or get out of the vehicle. I vomited all over myself, my Dad who was sitting next to me, my chair, the back of the chair infront of me, the floor etc.

I couldn't eat sundried tomatos for several years afterwards. Let's just say that if you gulp down whole ones the day before, they take a long time to be digested and whole sundried tomatos don't look good on the floor of the bus amongst other gunk. Too much information? Yes, I apologise!

Unfortunately, it all happened early in the morning on a full day tour. This meant I didn't have clean clothes to wear for the rest of the day, and I was very unpopular on the bus. I was mortified as the bus driver tried his best to clean up and spread ecalyptus oil around the bus to mask the smell.

 For those of you who have never seen a 4WD bus, they look like this - source

Later in the day we stopped for lunch and were instructed to leave our belongings on our seats in the bus. A rude German family joined the tour, and decided to appropriate our seats which were towards the front of the bus (they simply sat on top of our belongings). My Mum told them, "Excuse me, those are our seats" to which they aggressively replied, "We are not moving". She tried to explain that we were happy to give up the seats, but that I had vomited everywhere and they were sitting in vomit. They couldn't speak much english so obviously didn't understand, and simply shouted aggressively that they would not move (and proceeded to throw our belonings into the aisle). The rest of the bus witnessed their rudeness and there was a lot of laughter as they realised which seats these tourists had stolen. Talk about karma, you have got to love it!

Do you have an interesting road trip story? Do share!!!

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Brunch Review: Zil Cafe, West Perth

It was 11:30am on a weekday. Thankfully, Zil were still happy to serve me from the brunch menu, and who can resist a second breakfast? Not me!

My meal:

Mushrooms and spinach with balsamic reduction + a poached egg (OK, so it's not hand poached... but at least it had a good consistency!)

The Scoring

Menu variety / creativity: 6/10. A short and simple menu. I probably chose the only ‘creative’ option.

Taste:  7.5/10. Very good, I really enjoyed my meal and thought it was a great combination of flavours. The egg wasn’t hand poached, but at least it had the right consistency.

Coffee: 7.5/10. Pretty good.

Setting / location: 7/10. Nice, simple décor. Around the back there are some bookshelves and wall decorations. The front has a wall covered in music/concert posters.

Service: 8.5/10. Very fast and friendly, personalised service. Love it!

Price: 7.5/10. Reasonably priced, with my breakfast costing $12 and the coffee coming in at average.

Verdict: Cute café and I wouldn’t hesitate to order the same dish again if I was in the area. Free wifi was handy too, but the service is what really made it special.

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